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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-06-17
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
The following Is the time Of trains stopping
at Shenandoah Junction:
YAsT-BoUsD.
No. s.-ChIcago and Pittsburg express % |"
IN. -
No. Ii8.-Way Freight. passenger car aiiAep'
ed, 6.I5 a. m.
No e8.-Baltimore and Piedmont Aeo0mm"
dalton, 1910 a. IN.
No. 2.-Fast Express for Washington ~ az. :,
iImore stops on signal ~. ia "a
No. 3S.-Martinsburg ACCOMMODATING. -.
Washingtn and Baltimore h1p'e"
5.2I m.
wEsT-BOUsD.
No. G3.-Accommodation IDS n M .,,o.
No, 6J.-BaltImore and Piedmont hs0'
dation, l1.H a. m. .,,.eh.
No. li5.-Way Freight, passenger CAT "'
ed, 2.32 p. m. $1,000 ~.
No. l.-Cincinnati and 81. LOUIS Hi"''
press, az p. m.
No. 7.-Pittsburg Express. 1913 D. 'n'
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-06-17

IT is said that the forthcoming de-
cision of the Supreme Court of the
United States in the telephone cases
will be adverse to the Bell cmpany. We
hope this is true, for if it is. one OF the
most gigantic monopolies that ever ex-
tortioned on the American people will
receive its death blow.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-06-17

SPECTATORS generally have been
coming to grief this week. In Chicago
on Tuesday there was a great panic in
the wheat market and bad break i'm
prices. In wheat for June delivery the
price went down from 90 to 70 cents a
bushel, and the market was completely
demoralized. A number of failures were
announced.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-06-17

EVANSVILLE, OHIO, BUSINESS COLLEGE,
PARSONS & KENNISoN, Proprletors.
ok-keeping, Penmanship, Telegraphy,
Shorthand, Type-writng and Drawing.
Young men fitted for business. Students can
enter at any time. Fall term begins Septem-
Der 18th. Circulars sent free.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-06-17

The opinion is steadily growing that
President Cleveland will receive the
next Democratic nomination for the
Presidency by reclamation. And he
will be elected by larger majority
than he was the last time. The old
stock arguments of the Republican ora
tors won't do any good next campaign.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-06-17

May 8. Bal. due District. Isl ,I9s 10
Middleway Road District, 1886
In account with j. Garland Hurst Sheriff
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13


The Chicago correspondent Of the New
York Star says that Nina Van zaudt, the
proxy bride of August Spies, the con-
demned Chicago Anarchist, is in decided
ly i'll health and probably dying. She has
cut loose from her family and is having a
hard time. The correspondent reports
Miss Van zapdt saying: mQh, this worry
is killing me. Not only the anxiety about
the outcome of the case, but the intoler-
able throngs of callers, curious only to
see me, and the army of beggars who
have read that was rich; and then the
letters, bushels Of them, from every con-
ceivable sort of people, some of them
threatening my life and some asking for
money; many abusing me, and no end to
the marriage proposals from unknown
vagabonds who say they are much better
than any Anarchist; that Mr.. Spies will
be hanged anyhow, and had better con-
clude to accept their offer. A great
many include photos, so that 1 can see
how good looking they are. Oh, 1 did
not know the world was so full of silly
fools as it seems to be. I am nervous,
sleeplcss and nearly worried to death.
The injunction suit cost me great deal
of money, and my income has been shut
off on every hand. I have nothing now
but the income of my book on the life of
Mr.. Spies, and the attacks of the press
have made its sales very slow. I have
not spoken to mother or father for
months; then came that cruel edict from
the taller that should not be allowed to
see Mr.. Spies even through iron bars"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

ATcHIsoNr, Kansas, does an annual gram
business of rs, ,5O0, ,0OO.
THE Canadian Parliament has appropriated
s125. 600 to maintain fisheries cruisers.
A MIcHI5AN man, aged sixty, who is
bar.
SIX new gold mines have been discovered
recently in the eastern part OF the lslano Oh
Cuba.
A RECENT estimate places the value OF the
dairy products of this country IN 1850 al
S7SO, ,H5,GSs.
SEVERAL olive-growers in Southern Cali.
fornia will this year make oil instead OF
pickles from their crop.
THE bodies of GOO Chinese are about to be
disnterred at San Francisco and shipped TO
China for final interment.
THE fruit prospects along the Hudson River
districts are said to promise more fruit than
the farmers will know what to do with.
LINNlEUs, the botanist, is to have the finest
monument in Chicago. II is to cost $50. 600,
and will be erected by the Swedes residing in
that city.
RAIN fell for ten hours on n spot of ground
two feet square in Augusta, Ca, recently.
The phenomenon caused much excitement
among the negroes.
IT is stated on good authority that one Of
the richest planters in the province of Rio de
Janiero, Brazil, has decided to set free his
3. .ODO slaves and settle them Oh his own plan
tation.
In Tehama county, CAL, 10000 rabbits
have been killed in about four months, and
the animals now seem about us plentiful as
before. The bounty on scalps is to be aban-
doned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13
The Dollar.

Our word dollar dates back to 1885,
when q resolution was passed by Congress
which provided that it should be the
unit of the money of the United States.
Another resolution was passed in 1875,
August 5, providing that it should weigh
375. ga grains of pure silver. The mint
was established in 1892, and was then re-
ouired to coin silver dollars containing
371.25 grains of pure silver. This was
due to the influence of Alexander Ham,
ilton. No dollars were coined until 1894,
and then irregular. They are worth now
500 each. In 1874 the coinage Of
regular dollars began. Our coin was an
adaptation of the Spanish miled dollar,
a coin very popular wherever the Span
iards travelled. The coin was called
"piastrc," meaning fiat piece of metal; {;
it is synonymous with plaster. 1t is
supposed that the Spaniards took the
German ''thaler," and called it by the
name of "piastre" The word dollar is
the English for thaler, the first of which
was coined abont 1856, and corresponds
quite closely to our present American
silver dollars. The word thaler means
'coming from dale or valley" the first
dollars having hecn coined in Bohemian
valley called Foachimsthal. 1t was I'M
der Charles V, the Emperor of Germany,
King of Spain. and Lord of Spanish
America, that the German thaler became
the coin of the world. d.-Ftaancier.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13
LATER NEWS

PRESIDENT BEACH, of Wesleyan College, at
Middletown, Conn., has been removed by the
Trustees, who are dissatisfied with his man
agement
JAMES CUNNINGHAM, an employe Of the
Old Colony Railroad, while at work on a
moving train at Boston fell between
the cars. Part of his body was caught by
the train and part was dragging
on the ground. In this position he
was carried about forty feet, when, by dint
of great exertion, he got loose and threw him
self out of the way of the moving train. He
landed directly in front Of another train,
which ran over him and killed him.
FOUR miners were coming out of mine at
Norway, Mich, when some men above let
tram car get away, and it came laundering
down the shaft. The car struck the cage con-
tanning the miners, and all were killed.
SCOTT LYON and Jack billiard, negro rail-
road employees at Columbia, SC, had saw
age fight during which the former butted the
latter with such force that he fractured his
skull, killing him instantly.
A FIRE swept over one-fourth of the busi-
ness part of Elizabethtown, KY, causing q
loss of 100000.
AN earthquake at Guayquil, Ecuador, de-
molished several buildings.
CIVIL WAR prevails in Afghanistan. The
Ameer's troops have been whipped by the
rebels in one battle, and in another the latter
were defeated with heavy loss.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13
LIGHTNING FREAKS.

Mas. THEODORE WILLIAMS, Of Acworth,,
Ga, was killed by stroke received while she.
was taking in clothes from wire clothes.
line. -
Lightning struck the plow of David Easily.
of Nicholasville, KY, with which he was at
work, and tore it into q hundred pieces, and.
killed both Easily and his mule. ~
ARCHIE Fry, of Parksville, Ky, was taxi
ing his horse from the plow, when lightning
saved him the trouble The bolt then ran
across the field eighty feet and killed three
other horses. .
As Robert Appleby, of Chillicothe, Mo-,
was standing in his door, lightning strnck
tree near by and threw one of the limbs
against Appleby, breaking his arm and nearly
killing him. f.
A BRAKEMAN named Williams was struck
bv lightning on a train of the Missouri Pa
cific while stopping at Centre View, Mo. He
was tossed all about the cabUoSe by the pow
erful fluid, but escaped serious injury.
A NEGRO and his wife, of -Guinnett. Ga,
drove their mule under shed during
storm. A lightning bolt struck the mue e and
broke his neck, but neither of the negroes was
hurt, ccptin feelings.
LIGHTNING jnmped from lnrge locust tree
on the premises Of John W. Hurd, at Dover
Y. j., into the house and ran all oTer ;t,risit-
ing every gilt picture frame upstairs and
down, and then made its exit by a hole in the
roof.
The barbed-wire feuce abort Sam Britt's
place at Monroe Ga. threw off sparks like
an electric machine during recent thunder
storm. and Mr. Britt and his negro servant
were rendered unconscious by the influence,
but suffered ITO serious injury.
Two Columbus Miss negroes took refuge
under tree during a recent thunder storm,
and both were killed. One had his clothes
stripped completely from his body, while the
other showed only blue mark on the crown
of his head and another on tho ball of his
foot.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13
CHICAGO'S BIG BLAZE.
Acres of Buildings Burned in the
Union Stock Yards.

Acres of Buildings Burned in the
Union Stock Yards.
A millionand quarter.dollars went up in
smoke at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, on
Sunday. Early in the morning one of the en-
ployes of the Chicago Packing and Provision
Company discovered fire in the tank-room.
In a few minutes one of the tanks
exploded, scattering burning lard over
the adjacent buildings and a dozen separate
fires were soon competing with each other IN
the destruction of the immense establishment.
Though the fire was struck oIt in the even
ing, fourteen and half hours after it started,
the smoldering emberS continued to laden the
air with the fumes of roast pork, and five
acre oven remained on the premises red-hot
for couple of days.
The works occupy about six acres OF ground,
but the fire was kept within the district
bounded by Fortieth street, Centre avenue,
Forty-second street and the railroad tracks
block west of Centre avenue. This territory
contained four large buildings. The
main building Was 800 feet by 475. In it
a portion Of the killing was done, and
the hanging, cutting, packing, curing and
other work Incidental to Slaughtering estab-
lishment. Except the curing-in room, IN
which were 19,Gy0. 900 pounds Of short ribs, the
main building and its contents are total loss:
In the warehouses were 1900 barrels Of
mess pork belonging to Armour & Co. The
building and much of the pork was wholly
destroyed. About three thousand live hogs
were in the building when the fire
started, but the colnpanys employees sue
ceeded in getting most of them out. Be-
tween six aud seven hundred hogs were
burned alive in the building. Back of the
main building was the fertilizing factory,
100 feet square. and the engine house, 80 by
Is feet. Both structures were completely
destroyed.
Perhaps the most exciting scene of the day
was presented when the men who were at
tempting to drive through the covered run
ways the live hogs in the upper stories were
forced by the flames to deSst. Below were
scores of workmen rolling out barrels of pork.
Down OH the crowd pellmell leaped doz-
ems of affrightened animals that
had jumped from the windows or sprang
through the open hatchways. The men who
had braved the flames fled from the falling
hogs, and at distance watched for glimpses
of the squealing brutes that, ,crazed with pain,
! were rushing madly about in their tall prison
of fire About 200 barrels of pork were saved
before the hogs commenced jumping.
During the afternoon the frcmen gave their
attention to saving the short ribs in the curing
room. While q number of men were inside
the main building, one of the division walls
fell, seriously injuring Thomas Murphy (who
died in the EVENING" and four other men. The
total loss is estimated at 81. 1.25O.O0O.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

FOUR Kings and crowd Of mobiles visited
the Wild West show in London recently.
Mr.. IRVING, Miss Terry, and party will
leave England for New York on October 20.
ADE1INA PATHS voice is pronounced by q
Paris correspondent to be inferior to tnat Of
her sister, Carlotta, in point of freshness and
purity.
HERE are some footings OF the past seasons
ledger: Edwin Booth, s175, 900; Adelina
Patti, $3.50, 900; Mrs Langtry, $4,000. Loss:
Wilson Barrett, S22,0O0.
IT is estimated that Madame Sarah Bern
hardt, who sailed for Europe from New York
recently, made $500, 1000 from her fourteen
months American season:
SIG. JANorrA's opera Of "Alidor," which
has Just had: its first performances at St
Paul, MINI, during the last week, is highly
spoken of by the critics of that city.
M1ss MARGUERITE HALL, of Boston, has
been received with much favor in London
musical circles, and her singing has been
highly commended by her audiences
MANAGER GRAU has arranged contract
-or an American tour with the celebrated
French actor, Coquelin, commencing next
June in South America In the following
August he will make his first appearance in
the United States, and will play here for sew
eral month";.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13
FATAL FIRE DAMP.
Four Men Killed and Others In
jured by an Explosion.

JuFcN w Stt IAPioSloh.
A terrible disaster occurred in No. 4 slope
of the Susquehanna Coal Company at Nam
ticoke, Penn, Thurs lay morning. by which
four men were killed and three others injured,
two of them fatally.
The men had just gone to work when the
explosion took place. One miner entered an
abandoned chamber with naked light Con-
siderable gas had generated in this chamber,
and it was marked by the fire boss: dan
ger, do not Enter" The man who en-
tered failed to see the danger signal, and as
soon as he went into the chamber and his
light came in contact with the gas, ter
whole mine. The force of the explosion
was so great that it shattered
pillar of coal sixteen feet in circumference
The men who were nearest the scene Of the
explosion were thrown violently against the
panpways, and two of them were crushed
into a shapeless mass Another man was
burned so terribly by the gas that the flesh
peeled from his bones.
The sufferings of the injured m,n were also
intense. Some of them asked to be shot to Sc
cure relief from their agony. The dead and
injured were taken out of the mine as soon as
possible. At the head of the slope great
crowd of people had gathered and the excite
ment was intense, as it was first runored that
a second disaster, similar to that of December,
1885, had taken place, by which twenty-five
men lost their lives. When the mangled
victims were carried to the surface, the heart
rending cries of the relatives and friends
were pitable in the extreme They rushed
forward and embraced the coal-black and
shattered forms of their dear ones. On ac-
count of the disaster ell the mines in town
stopped work.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13

The GENITAL provinces of Spain (thc
Madrid correspondent of the London
Chronicle says have been visited by so
terrible plague of locusts that whole
districts are ruined. Within the space
of few hours these pests have destroyed
every trace of vegetation-grass, wheat,
vines and olives. Over considerable
tracts of country not vestige of green
is to be seen, and the reports state that at
times the sun has been obscured when
these fearful pests have been winging
their flight from place to place. In La
Mancha the trains have been stopped by
them, and gangs of workmeu have had
to go ahead of passenger trains in trucks
to clear the lines of the myriads of locusts
that have descended upon them. In many
cases the insects have lain so thick on the
rails that trains have not been able to
travel faster than three or four miles an
hour. The cortes are about to vote a
large credit in aid of the sufferers and to
provide for means of destroying these
voracious swarms of insects.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13

It is stated that the habit of drinking
absinthe is more common to-day in this
country than it ever was before. OF Its
evil effects one writer says: The poor
wretches given up to absinthe drinking
suffer from peculiar train of nervous
symptoms, the most prominent of which
is epilepsy of remarkably severe char
actcr. The last moments of the absinthe
drinker are truly horrible. Absinthc,
BESIDES alcohol, contains several ethereal
oils, of which the most important is the
oil of wormwood. 1t has often been OBJ,
served that the use of this beverage re-
suits in disorders widely differing from
those caused by alcohol alone, and the
oil of wormwood has produced in ami
mails tetanic commissions similar to the
epileptic form of convulsions which at
feet absinthe drinkers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13

The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette re-
marks: "It is an old saying that Ameri-
cans love to be humbugged. Not satiate
with the numberless humbugs practiced
upon them in this country they are
tempted by swindles cencocted abroad.
A favorite scheme among English rascals
is to advertise that an immense English
estate awaits American heirs. The
frauds are exposed and the rcgues occa-
sionally sent to prison, but this does not
seem to hinder the business bit. The
latest swindle exposed is that represent
ing that a fortune of s75, $1,000 awaits
in England the pleasure of the Sands
family in this country. Already consid-
cradle money has been forwarded Ey
American heirs to pay the expenses OF
getting their claims cashed."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13

A. twenty-three foot vein Of what
promises to be valuable kind of fuel has
been discovered at Elsinorc, CAL, and it
is thought that the whole valley is under
laid with it. 1t is described by the
Ne.cs of that place as quite soft, and
easily worked when in the mine, but ii
gets hard when exposed to the air. 1t
resembles slate somewhat in appearance,
although of somewhat lighter color.
1t is clean, leaves no marks or stains on
the hand, does not slack or crumble in
the air, can be split like mica into very
thin fibers, burns freely, and needs only
TO be ignited with match, smells like
burning rubber when being consumed
and leaves behind jet black ash resem
bling lampblack in all its properties. L
is said to be worth SIS per ton for max
ing gas.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

On June IA Harriet Beecher Stowe attained
the age Of 7G.
SENATOR EDMUNDs, accompanied oy MS
family, has been making pleasure tour Oh
Canada.
FRANK JAMES, the famous desperate Is az
pl,rs ,nt ting as salesman Ill clothliiS S'oie
at Dallas, Texas
GENERAL JOHN c. FREMONT has taken
cottage on Manasquan River at folnt
Pleasant, Ocean County, NJ
Ex-V1cE PRESIDENT HANNIBAL HAML1N,
who will be IS in August, assures his 1rlehds
that he feels like healthy man OF 5o.
PRINCE LOUIS, eldest son of the regent OF
Bavaria and heir to the crown. is torty,three
years of age and the father OF nine cniiaren'
REEs WITTLER, aged thirty -four, welgnt
fifty-eight pounds, height thirty-sX lncnes, is
Thought to be the smallest man in the country.
He lives at Plymouth Penn.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX IS Slowly re-
covering from her recent dangerous lllness.
1t is announced that she will soon DID fare-
well forever to Meriden, Conn.
FRANCIS MURPHY, the temperance apostle,
has returned to Pittsburg, after successful
Six months tour in the West, during which
period be obtained over 1900 signatures to
the pledge -...
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13

Building railroads in China is AL old
theme. Circumstantial details have ap-
peared from time to time with accounts
of concessions obtained and with pre-
dictions as to the time when that country
would be covered with network of rails.
The latest account is given in the London
Colliery Guardian, based On news from
Pckin, which declares positively that
China is at last to have railways. The
report is that the Chinese court has ad-
vised the empress to order the construc-
ton of railroad from Kaiping to Takoo,
the port of Tientsin, and line from
Takoo to Ticntsin. 1t is considered
probable that the coal mines in the
vicinity of Pekin will be connected with
that city by rail, thus permitting the cost
of coal to be cheapened. The building
of these roads, and positively others, is
looked upon by British iron and steel
manufacturers as likely to open a large
field for British goods of this character.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13

A report has been madc by the seybert
Commission, constituted BY the Uni
7ersitv of Pennsylvania, to inquire into
the manifestations Of spiritualism, in
accordance with the will of Henry sey'
bert. wealthy Philadelphia Spiritua!ist
who died in 1884, leaving $50, to the
University to found a chair Of philoso'
ply, conditioned upon the appointment
of the commission which has since borne
his name. The sentiment of the com
mission is expressed in the following
sentence: "Our experience has been that
rs soon as an investigation worthy of the
name begins, all manifestations of Spirit
ualistic power cease"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13

The Presidents of the various Repub'
lies of the world are, for the most part,
men in about the middle period of life.
Few of them are over sixty, and for va
rious reasons, none of them are so young
as many monarchs have been when they
mounted the throne. The oldest is the
President of France P. Jules
Grevy-who will finish his seventy
fourth year in less than three months
from the present time. Our own execu-
tive, Mr.. Cleveland, completed his half
century some months ago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13
Bavaria has bad luck with her Kin!

Bavaria has bad luck with her Kings.
The late King Ludwig became insane
and committed suicide, and mis- successor,
King Otto, who has officially been de-
clared insane, is sodangcrously demented
that four physicians take turns in con
stantly guarding him. His favorit'
amusement is shooting peasant boys
To humor this hobby he is kept supplied
with rifles loaded with powder only
Presently a boy crosses the road, the
King shoots, the boy drops, and is car,
ried away by excited individuals who
have "accidentally" witnessed the scene.
Needless to say the boy is unhurt, and
gets five cents for his trouble.